cars disappear

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I need your help

I have rented a server to play with friends and it works perfectly except that the cars disappear if we move away from them, can someone help me?

I've been looking for a solution for 3 hours but I can't find anything
Thank you

[ColdNhungry]

Assuming you are talking about the ones that spawn in around the map, you'll have to change their lifetimes in either events.xml or types.xml (one of those two) for each vehicle type. The defaults are quite low, so when you get far enough, the game's cleanup radius despawns them.

[etwas]

Originally posted by ColdNhungry:

Assuming you are talking about the ones that spawn in around the map, you'll have to change their lifetimes in either events.xml or types.xml (one of those two) for each vehicle type. The defaults are quite low, so when you get far enough, the game's cleanup radius despawns them.

i use the vanilla settings too on my server and this vehicles dont despawn.

i dunno what dictates the lifetime of vehicles. but im sure their lifetime has no limit, unless the engine gets ruined.
only spawned-in vehicles with admin tools and modded cars might despawn. there u gotta increase their lifetime.

[ColdNhungry]

Originally posted by etwas:

Originally posted by ColdNhungry:

Assuming you are talking about the ones that spawn in around the map, you'll have to change their lifetimes in either events.xml or types.xml (one of those two) for each vehicle type. The defaults are quite low, so when you get far enough, the game's cleanup radius despawns them.

i use the vanilla settings too on my server and this vehicles dont despawn.

i dunno what dictates the lifetime of vehicles. but im sure their lifetime has no limit, unless the engine gets ruined.
only spawned-in vehicles with admin tools and modded cars might despawn. there u gotta increase their lifetime.

Ah is that the difference? Makes sense now that I think about it. I haven't really messed with cars in a pretty long time. But yeah I remember having the same issue way back, so I must have been spawning them in when testing stuff. Had the same issue when buying them via vendors on a community server earlier this (er last...) year, nets were the only way to have them stick around. Also explains why they always stay on official servers if still functional heh..

[SiDaReuS]

Mine disapeard too. Had a Red Dot somehow and i couldnt enter it. All Doors worked fine, Trunk wasnt reachable. I reenterd the game, no changes. Server restart, Car gone. I drove it 10 minutes before.

[mynicknametaken]

Originally posted by ColdNhungry:

Assuming you are talking about the ones that spawn in around the map, you'll have to change their lifetimes in either events.xml or types.xml (one of those two) for each vehicle type. The defaults are quite low, so when you get far enough, the game's cleanup radius despawns them.

u wot, the vanilla despawn time for a not ruined car is literally infinity. they literally never despawn in vanilla

[ColdNhungry]

Originally posted by mynicknametaken:

Originally posted by ColdNhungry:

Assuming you are talking about the ones that spawn in around the map, you'll have to change their lifetimes in either events.xml or types.xml (one of those two) for each vehicle type. The defaults are quite low, so when you get far enough, the game's cleanup radius despawns them.

u wot, the vanilla despawn time for a not ruined car is literally infinity. they literally never despawn in vanilla

Yeah, as followed up in the next comments, I got mixed up with cars spawned in via admin tools..

So OP, just needs to do that if spawning them in manually.

[SeaGull]

I have the lifespan set to 3888000 but people still coming their car despawned. Damage is off on them. Why is that happening?

[Coffee]

I've found covering cars (and helis) with a camo net prevents them from despawning.

[etwas]

Originally posted by SeaGull:

I have the lifespan set to 3888000 but people still coming their car despawned. Damage is off on them. Why is that happening?

did u change it in types AND events.xml for all vehicle types?

[Mad Mike]

I no longer park on bridges... have lost 3 cars on the various bridges. (Vanilla Livonia)